Building Resilient, Distributed Systems with Elixir

One of the most exciting features of Elixir is its ability to connect multiple nodes together. Because distribution is built directly into the language’s runtime, those of us in the Elixir world have access to a number of powerful abstractions for building distributed systems.

However, distributed Erlang comes with several caveats and warnings. In this training day, Ben Marx and Chris Keathley will demystify some of the warnings whilst reiterating others.

During this training, participants will get hands on experience with distributed Erlang, through building real solutions to real world problems. Developers will learn how to harden their solutions against network and hardware failures using a test harness designed to inject failures into clusters. Whilst the goal is to provide an understanding of the primitives available in Erlang and Elixir for building distributed systems, we’ll also discuss some of the popular libraries available such as partisan and riak_core.